Background

Dr. Helen Marion Nugent, AO, BA (Hons) (Qld), PhD (Qld), MBA (Harv), HonDBu, served as a Partner of McKinsey and Company. Dr. Nugent has 30 years experience in the financial services and energy and resources sectors. She served as a Director of Strategy of Westpac Banking Corporation from 1994 to 1999. As an Associate at McKinsey & Company, she worked extensively in the financial services and resources sectors. She serves as Independent Chairman at Veda Advantage Limited. ... She serves as Chairman of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. Dr. Nugent serves as the Chairman of Superannuation Funds Management Corporation of South Australia, where she has been a Director since December 2000. She has been the Independent Chairman of Veda Group Limited since September 20, 013. Dr. Nugent serves as the Chairman of Swiss Re Life & Health in Hudson Australia and Swiss Re (Australia). She served as the Executive Chairman and a Director of Australian & New Zealand Business at Hudson Global, Inc. (Hudson Highland Group Inc). since February 9, 2007. She has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Origin Energy Limited, ORG and HOMEX Sydney since March 26, 2003. She serves as a Non-Executive Director of Australian Institute of Company Directors, Candida, and the South Australian Economic Development Board. She serves as an External National Board Member of Herbert Smith Freehills. She served as an Independent & Non Executive Director of Macquarie Group Limited from August 2007 to July 24, 2014 and also served as a Non-Executive Director of Macquarie Bank Limited from June 1999 to July 24, 2014. She served as an Independent Non-executive Director of TattsBet Limited since July 1999. She served as a Director of United Energy Distribution Pty Limited from 1999 to January 2002 and also as a Non-Executive Director of the State Bank of New South Wales from 1993 to 1994; and as Non-Executive Director at Mercantile Mutual from 1992 to 1994. She served as a Director of EDT Retail Trust since June 1999 and Australian Postal Corporation. She served as an Independent Non Executive Director of Carter Holt Harvey Limited from May 29, 2003 to October 1, 2005. She serves as the Chairman of Remuneration Committee, Member of Nominating Committee and Member of Risk Committee at CPPIB Communications Infrastructure Group. She serves as President of Cranbrook School. She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2004 for her services to the performing arts, to business and the financial services industry, particularly in the area of corporate governance, and to the community. She is a Chancellor and Trustee of Bond University Limited. Prior to joining Westpac, she was a Professor in Management and Director of the M.B.A. Program at the Australian Graduate School of Management. Previously, she chaired the Ministerial Inquiry into the Major Performing Arts. She served as the Deputy Chairman of the Australia Council and the Chairman of the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council. In 2001, she was awarded a Centenary Medal for her service to Australian society in business and the arts. Dr. Nugent holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, with first class honors, and a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland as well as a Masters of Business Administration, with Distinction, from the Harvard Business School.

Independent Non-Executive Director, Chairman of Remuneration Committee, Member of Audit Committee, Member of Nomination Committee, Member of Risk Committee, Non-Executive Director of ORG and Non-Executive Director of Homex - Sydney

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